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whig API, RSS and sitemap

Every article whig publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 985 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

United StatesEnglish#6,006 by volume

Four ways to pull whig.com

All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from whig.com, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=whig.com&size=20"open it →

RSS Subscribe in any reader

The same articles as an RSS 2.0 feed. Works in Feedly, Inoreader, Thunderbird — anywhere.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/rss?host=whig.com&size=50"open it →

JSON Feed For apps

JSON Feed 1.1, the same content in a format apps parse natively.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/feed.json?host=whig.com&size=50"open it →

Trimmed For agents

Only the fields an agent needs — title, url, date, language — so the response stays small.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=whig.com&size=20&fields=title,url,published_at,lang"open it →

What this outlet covers, by share of its recent output:

sport 50%society 30%legal 20%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and whig headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=whig.com&size=5"
985
articles indexed
452
in the last 30 days
18
median per day
1
languages
5 min
median crawl lag
25.08 → 21.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 27 days. The busiest hour is 16:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-25: 25 articles2026-08-26: 17 articles2026-08-27: 14 articles2026-08-28: 19 articles2026-08-29: 22 articles2026-08-30: 2 articles2026-08-31: 4 articles2026-09-01: 32 articles2026-09-02: 18 articles2026-09-03: 25 articles2026-09-04: 31 articles2026-09-05: 14 articles2026-09-06: 12 articles2026-09-08: 20 articles2026-09-09: 17 articles2026-09-10: 14 articles2026-09-11: 18 articles2026-09-12: 22 articles2026-09-13: 1 articles2026-09-14: 12 articles2026-09-15: 19 articles2026-09-16: 20 articles2026-09-17: 18 articles2026-09-18: 17 articles2026-09-19: 17 articles2026-09-20: 3 articles2026-09-21: 19 articles08-2508-2909-0209-0609-1109-1509-1909-21
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=whig.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When whig actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 985 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 110001: 130102: 70203: 70304: 60405: 240506: 100607: 60708: 110809: 120910: 271011: 281112: 121213: 161314: 191415: 591516: 691617: 211718: 271819: 231920: 222021: 92122: 42223: 923
Mon: 35MonTue: 96TueWed: 72WedThu: 71ThuFri: 85FriSat: 75SatSun: 18Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 35% of their articles.

SectionArticles
legal159
society159
sport159

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish45245.9%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent whig articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

David Warren Dowling
2026-09-21 20:14 UTC
Quincy, IL David Warren Dowling, age 70, of Quincy, died on Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 6:15 pm. in Illinois Veterans’ Home. Hansen-Spear Funeral Directors are in cha
Michael D. Laws
2026-09-21 19:26 UTC
Quincy, IL Michael D. Laws, age 51, of Quincy, died on Saturday, September 19, 2026 in Blessing Hospital. Service arrangements are with the Duker & Haugh Funeral Home.
Shelia Jo Ann Steininger
2026-09-21 19:20 UTC
Pittsfield, IL Shelia Jo Ann Steininger, age 82 of Pittsfield, IL passed away Friday, September 18, 2026, at Eastside Healthcare & amp; Rehabilitation Center in Pittsfiel
Richy Butler
2026-09-21 19:03 UTC
Pittsfield, IL Richy Butler, age 63 of Pittsfield, IL passed away Thursday, September 17, 2026, in Pittsfield, IL. Graveside Service will be held at 2:30PM, Wednesday, Se
Elizabeth “Liz” Marie Newberry
2026-09-21 18:59 UTC
Keokuk, IA Elizabeth “Liz” Marie Newberry, 85, of Keokuk, passed away Saturday, September 19, 2026, at Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center in West Burlington, Iowa. A
Republican leaders claim Illinois is winnable this November
2026-09-21 18:52 UTC
MT. STERLING — Republican leaders and candidates rallied party faithful in Brown County this weekend, asserting that high voter turnout in downstate regions can flip Illi
Madison motorcyclist injured after hitting buzzard near Paris
2026-09-21 18:45 UTC
PARIS — A Madison man was hospitalized Saturday afternoon after his motorcycle struck a buzzard and overturned in Monroe County. The single-vehicle accident occurred arou
Hannibal driver injured in three-vehicle crash on Veterans Road
2026-09-21 18:35 UTC
HANNIBAL — A 74-year-old Hannibal man was hospitalized Friday morning following a three-vehicle collision on Veterans Road in Marion County. The crash happened around 9:2
Brown County Sheriff’s Office releases weekly activity report
2026-09-21 18:32 UTC
MOUNT STERLING — Local law enforcement officers responded to two traffic collisions, including an unoccupied runaway semi-truck crash and a car-deer crash that resulted i
QPD Blotter: Week of September 13-September 19
2026-09-21 18:27 UTC
QUINCY — The Quincy Police Department reported the following arrests and traffic-related incidents, according to its daily media log. September 13, 2026 Arrests Jeremy E.
Anthony Ray “Tony” Marble
2026-09-21 18:20 UTC
Edina, MO Anthony Ray “Tony” Marble, 55, of Edina, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, September 16, 2026. Funeral services will be held Friday, September 25, 2026, in the H
Hannibal volleyball wins St. Charles Tournament
2026-09-21 17:06 UTC
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — The Hannibal volleyball team continued its hot streak, coming away with a first-place finish at the St. Charles Tournament on Saturday. Hannibal starte
Herbert H. “Herb” Large
2026-09-21 16:48 UTC
Hannibal, MO Herbert H. “Herb” Large, 84, of Hannibal, MO, passed away at 8:50 AM, Friday, September 18, 2026, at his home in Palmyra, MO. Funeral Services will be at […]
Thomas J. “Tom” Hessling
2026-09-21 16:31 UTC
Quincy, IL Thomas J. “Tom” Hessling, 85, of Quincy, IL, died Friday, September 18, 2026, at Blessing Hospital in Quincy, IL. Arrangements are pending at the Lummis Hamilt
Elsie Marie Scott
2026-09-21 16:23 UTC
Hannibal, MO Elsie Marie Scott, 86, of Hannibal, MO, passed away at 10:27AM, Thursday, September 17, 2026, at Maple Lawn Nursing Home in Hannibal, MO. Funeral Services ar
Betty Mae Robertson
2026-09-21 16:18 UTC
Barry, IL Betty Mae Robertson, aged 92, of Barry, IL passed away Thursday, September 17, 2026 at home. The funeral service will be Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 1pm at
Canton, MO
2026-09-21 16:06 UTC
Canton, MO Linda June Durst, 79 of Canton, Missouri passed away peacefully on September 18, 2026 at home with family by her side. She leaves behind a beautiful legacy of
Cynthia Jo Davies
2026-09-21 15:51 UTC
Springfield, IL Cynthia Jo Davies, of Springfield, Illinois passed away at the Springfield Suites on Wednesday, September 16, 2026. She was born on September 13, 1939, in

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=whig.com&from=now-7d&size=100"

To poll for new material, keep the timestamp of the newest article you saw and ask only for what came after it:

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=whig.com&from=now-1h&sort=date_asc"

Article bodies come with full_text=true. No key, no quota tier, no header — see the search endpoint for every parameter.

Metadata quality

How well whig marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

0%
dates from JSON-LD
0%
articles with a byline
35%
articles with sections
—
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 5 min at the median, 3370 minutes at the 90th percentile.

Similar publishers

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FAQ

Does whig have an official API?

Not a public one. This endpoint is the practical alternative: their articles as structured JSON, with title, lead, publication time, section, byline and a link back to the original.

How do I get their RSS feed?

Most publishers expose one at /rss or /feed, but feeds carry only the last few dozen items and drop them within hours. This index keeps 985 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does whig publish per day?

18 on a median day, measured across 27 days.

Can I use this commercially?

The API is free and unauthenticated. What you may do with the content is between you and the publisher: we return metadata, a lead paragraph and a link, not a licence.